Helene Cixous (Heather)
- 'to be'
- father was a jew, mother was a german
- measured the difference between feminism and masculinity
- major/ minor, prose/ poem
- 'it is impossible to define...'
Sigmund Freud (Kyle)
- 'conscious mind'
- 'id,' 'ego,' and 'superego'
- dreams- 'aware vs sleeping'
- phallic symbols are everywhere
- psycho-biographic: life and childhood
- ego analysis
Edward Said (Jiwan)
- western humanization
- history is not standardized, but dynamic
- unconscious act of persuasion
Wolfgang Iser (me)
- reader-response critic
- believed that the reader was most important
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Percy Shelley on youtube = sublime
synedoche: meaningful coincidence of 2 things
M. Arnold:
- "currency and supremacy are insured to it, not indeed by the world's deliberate and conscious choice, but by something far deeper- by the instinct of self-preservation in humanity." last lines
- what to do right before you die? 'The Bucket List'
- Jake doesn't like Pullman because of the controversy about the biblical aspects found in His Dark Materials
- intentional fallacy
- 'criticism of life' is the interpretation and evaluation of the meaning of life
- 'truth is a construction' said Vico
- 'Dover Beach' is dark and beautiful because of the 'eternal note of sadness'
- 'Dover Bitch'
- all things are a displacement: god vs devil, sheep vs wolf, angels vs demons
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